Course Description 

Public officers are often called to draft legislations. Legislations impact on the day to day of the country at large and thus officers are required to have a good understanding and articulation in drafting the legislation.

The topics to be covered are:

• The legislative process in Mauritius; the constitutional framework.
• The role of the legislative drafter
• Legislative drafting techniques
• The role of parliamentary scrutiny committees
• Legislative interpretation in the context of legislative drafting
• Delegated legislation and legislative instruments

Course Objectives  

The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:

• Understand the need for drafting of legislations in the parliamentary tradition.
• Understand how legislation is drafted by using correct, clear and unambiguous expressions and appropriate English grammar.
• Identify the key considerations and issues in preparing an appropriate legislative draft;
• Know how to convert legislative instructions into legislative sentences for the development of legislative drafts.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Translate policy guidelines into an appropriate legislation.
• Approach drafting tasks with confidence.
• Use language that is clear and consistent in the drafting of legislations.
• Compose simple instructions into legislative sentences that are unambiguous and free from common errors of expression;
• Develop a piece of legislation suitable for consideration by a professional drafter and eventual enactment.

    Duration

           2 days

    Hours To Be Earned

           12 Hours

    Certificate

    Price

           Rs 4000